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of evil under which the human race already lies as a necessary 

 consequence of its imperfection. All ideas of punishment, as 

 necessary to satisfy Divine wrath, or to expiate human offences, 

 are excluded on the present scheme. But it does not exclude 

 the idea of suffering^ as on the one hand a necessary conse 

 quence of human error, and on the other as requisite for the 

 eradication of that error, and for the purification and elevation 

 of the human soul. 



It was characteristic of his fidelity to the steadfast 

 rectitude of his moral training, however imperfectly it 

 might harmonize with his theoretical interpretations, that 

 he still sought to maintain our accountability to the Deity 

 even for the &quot;acts which are really his own.&quot; 



We are as much accountable to our Creator for the use we 

 make of our powers as if he had committed them to our 

 charge in ignorance of the result ; and our virtues and faults are 

 to us as much under the control of the self-regulating power 

 with which he has endowed us as they could be if we had no 

 relation to him whatever as a Creator, but were self-existent 

 beings. 



Nature had been driven out with a pitchfork, but it 

 persisted in coming back. What use Dr. Carpenter was 

 afterwards to make of the meaning of the &quot;self-regulating 

 power&quot; which he thus recognized, the essays on &quot;Human 

 Automatism,&quot; written after thirty years more of experience 

 and reflection, will abundantly show. 



IV. 



In the spring of 1845, the arrangement with Lord 

 Lovelace was brought to a close, and Dr. Carpenter moved 

 to London. He had been appointed in the preceding year 

 to the Fullerian Professorship of Physiology in the Royal 

 Institution, and he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society. He now undertook the course of General Anatomy 



